Discipline

I am beginning to see once again how much I lack discipline in my life. In every aspect including body, mind, spirit, work; EVERYTHING. Yesterday I started on the long road to establishing discipline as HABIT. Not only do I need to take specific time for myself, but I need to make sure that if I want to own my own company that I can be responsible for motivating myself. In the past I have made out specific SCHEDULES where every task was at a certain time. Now I find that too restricting, and instead have a very specific to do list on my calendar every single day. Things relating to keeping the house clean, working on my company, business things like paying bills or finding an apartment, grocery shopping, exercise, relaxation, praying. Everything. Most of the time I forget to do things, even when I know they're important. So hopefully having this list that I make up every week will give me the opportunity to use my time much more wisely.

Here's to another growing opportunity!

A week only God could predict!

Well...most of you haven't heard about the happenings of the past few days, so I wanted to let you in...

Thursday morning I was finishing up getting ready after an hour workout at the gym when I checked my messages on my phone. There was a message from my cousin Heather in tears telling me to call her back as soon as I got the message. Now to let you know, on Wednesday night she was supposed to be flying to Brazil...so thoughts are running through my head! I call her back right away and she's still in tears and a little frantic...all she says is that she's stuck in Chicago for 10 days but she's on the phone and has to call me back. So without even thinking about it i call work (I was on my way there) and tell them I can't come in because of a family emergency, and decide I'm going to Chicago. I get a hold of my aunt so I can find out what's going on and she tells me that they let her get on in Columbus OH without checking her visa. She gets to Chicago and they won't let her through because her visa had expired!

So needless to say there were a lot of ups and downs. As soon as she grabbed me at the airport she began sobbing. Her long planned 4 weeks in Brazil was quickly shortened to 2. Not something people want to go through. We spent about 7-8 hours in the airport that day trying to figure things out. United gave us food and hotel vouchers so we spent the night and ordered room service. Friday we spent the morning getting her paper work filled out and sent off and then drove back here to Normal. She will be staying with us until the 23rd when hopefully her visa will be here, and she can get on her flight at 9:30pm that evening.

Oh what a whirlwind...I'm just so thankful that she was stranded somewhere within a couple hours of family!

Once again I face the materialistic world...

So as most of you who read my little musings know, about once a year I seem to get this overwhelming urge to shed my life of material things. Over the past month I have been really stressed out about money. I haven't been making enough money to pay my student loans and save enough to move to Chicago. So the other night I was brainstorming about ways to save money and make money. I watched the movie "Into The Wild" and was inspired by his willingness to get rid of pretty much everything he owned to hitch-hike and live off the land. As a first step towards living as simply as possible I am selling all of my movies and CD's...including all of my Friend's DVD's. Those of you who know me well, know that this is a huge step for me. I have also given into the fact that I cannot afford to live by myself in Chicago, so I am going to be living with my friend and her boyfriend. I am looking forward to getting one step closer to a life that is less tied down to STUFF!